The problem is that if they don’t have achievements PvE players won’t go into WvW.
I acknowledge that in my original post, and I think it is a good thing that more people are getting into wvw. It is just this particular achievement that promotes very harmful behaviour (and a a lot of it with a requirement of 500 supply spent on repairs).
Come to think of it, the Demolition Expert achievement is also terrible. People purposefully run ahead to drop their regular rams before the commander can drop his superior rams. Inattentive players then waste their supply on paper siege. Also, they deny siege to people who actually have points invested in ram and catapult mastery.
This slows down groups greatly, giving defending forces additional response time, and is harmful to all servers.
This actually happened to me while I was swimming in water at ruins. Only they knocked me to the surface of the water first (removing my skill bar completely) and immobilized me there. It was one of those situations where I just let go of my keyboard, sat back and watched myself die, completely powerless.
I play on Yak’s Bend and most of the time our population is insufficient to trigger ques. This allows non WvW players to get into EB with great ease. People that don’t care about wvw or the performance of their server. These people only come to farm Season 1 achievements. Now, this in itself is not a bad thing. Indeed, most Season 1 achievements promote helpful behaviour like capturing objectives and killing players.
The repair achievement, however, is a curse. I’m sure that winning servers don’t get impacted by it alot, but we are currently in second place with limited access to supply and our Overlook is constantly getting trebbed from Stonemist Castle. OL has been sitting at 0-70 supply for hours due to the fact that achievement farmers keep wasting its supply on repairing walls that are actively being trebbed. This is greatly hurting our efforts to siege up and hold OL and its surrounding towers.
The repair daily was bad enough in my opinion, but this one is significantly worse. You hardly felt it when the ocassional casual would waste 25 supply on a wall, but 500 supply per person? kitten , that’s harsh.
If you change Symbol of Swiftness like that it will become signficantly less effective for giving us swiftness while on the move. When you are fleeing from a zerg for example. This will only further increase the absolute need for “Retreat” and/or Traveler runes.
I would suggest keeping the 8 second initial burst, while also keeping the 4 second subsequent bursts intanct. Just decrease the number of bursts by 1. Reducing the duration of this symbol will also have the added benefit of making it less likely for a random mob to wander into it, locking you into combat speed.
Or, if you want to force us to use “Retreat”, reduce the cooldown for that skill by 20 seconds at least.
I have the same problem. I have linked my accounts and have 30/50 points in the HoM, but I have received no titles and when I talk to Kimmes he basically tells me to bugger off.
Patiently awaiting a sollution while I continue to enjoy the game.
